The corner is known around town as Adams Five Corners in honor of two distant cousins of President John Quincy Adams, who lived in one of the houses on the corner, according to Kenneth Warchol, chairman of the Northbridge Historical Commission.

His four Oscar nominations were earned for playing an intensely bottled-up manservant (``The Remains of the Day,'' 1993), the anything-but-relaxed President Nixon (``Nixon,'' 1995), President John Quincy Adams dealing with a bloody slave mutiny (``Amistad,'' 1997) and, of course, the cannibalistic Dr.

As noted above, former president John Quincy Adams served in the House of Representatives, Andrew Johnson took appointment to the Senate, and several ex-presidents ran for and, in Grover Cleveland's case, even won back the presidency.

Former US President John Quincy Adams was the defender in the fledgling battle against slavery that was to become the greatest - and most bitterly fought - civil rights movement the world has ever known.

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